Tall Man: A Death in Aboriginal Australia

Hooper, Chloe

ISBN 10 : 1416561617 ISBN 13 : 9781416561613

Editeur : Scribner, 2014

Synopsis

Rare book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Chloe Hooper's masterful book of reportage is a kind of moral thriller about power, wretchedness, and violence." -- PHILIP ROTH

"It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this book." -- PETER CAREY, AUTHOR OF HIS ILLEGAL SELF AND THEFT: A LOVE STORY

"Chloe Hooper illuminates the brutal and tragic legacy of racism in northern Australia with first-rate reporting and incandescent prose. Tall Man should become a classic of literary nonfiction." -- MARYANNE VOLLERS, AUTHOR OF GHOSTS OF MISSISSIPPI

"Follows in the tradition of classic nonfiction novels like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as Hooper brings lyrical power to actual events. The result is a real-life Heart of Darkness in the Australian badlands." -- TIME OUT SYDNEY

"Every sentence is weighed, considered, even, restrained. Every character is explored for their contradictions, every situation observed for its nuances, every easy judgment suspended. Hooper has a feeling for the intimacy of violence, the fragility of the flesh, the tawdry inevitability of corruption, the fathomless depth of loss." -- THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 2004 on Palm Island, an Aboriginal settlement in the "Deep North" of Australia, a thirty-six-year-old man named Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he was dead in the jailhouse. The police claimed he'd tripped on a step, but his liver was ruptured. The main suspect was Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley, a charismatic cop with long experience in Aboriginal communities and decorations for his work.

Chloe Hooper was asked to write about the case by the pro bono lawyer who represented Cameron Doomadgee's family. He told her it would take a couple of weeks. She spent three years following Hurley's trail to some of the wildest and most remote parts of Australia, exploring Aboriginal myths and history and the roots of brutal chaos in the Palm Island community. Her stunning account goes to the heart of a struggle for power, revenge, and justice. Told in luminous detail, Tall Man is as urgent as Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and The Executioner's Song. It is the story of two worlds clashing —and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1416561617
• ISBN 13: 9781416561613
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 272